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GOLDSBORO. N. C. MAR. 21, 1895. PUBLISHED BY THE ARGUS PUBLISHING GO. Joseph E. Robinson, Editor, ) Walter A. Bonitz, Business Man'gr. J Entered at the Post Office at Golds" boro, N. C, as Second-Class Matter. WHAT REFORM" HAS FOR THE PEOPLE. DONE Charlotte Observer. The Progressive Farmer, organ of the State Alliance and one of the chief shriekers of "reform,'" had this edito rial in the early days of the session of the Legislature: "We have published platforms and editorials showing what the people want, time and again. Below are some of the changes wanted, and the atten tion of our legistators, regardless of party, is again called thereto: First. A new and honest election law. Second. A 6 per cent, interest law, with sufficient penalties and no loop holes. . - Third. At least four months' free schools for both races annually. Fourth. Effective anti-trust laws and solicitors and judges who will see that they are enforced. Fifth. A State reformatory for the reformation of youthful criminals. Sixth. A complete change in the pre sent county government system either repeal or radical modification. Seventh. Steps to wipe out the in famous homestead law, the father of the diabolical chattel mortgage sys tem and a complete business and credit demoralizer. Eighth. Either repeal or enforce the present State income tax law. Ninth. Appoint a code commission with enough common sense and legal honesty combined to simplify and shor ten The Code so ordinary miads can understand it. By so doing the Su preme Court will not split into two or three factions, for there will be fewer knotty cases to decide. Tenth. Reduce expenses, lop off fees wherever practicable, and follow the eolden rule in everything'. The gentle men who forget to carry out the wishes of the people will be requested to keep off the grass hereafter. Beginning at the end, we have to remark that "the gentlemen" who composed the late Legisla ture certainly did forget to carry out the wishes of the peo pie," and, unless these have lost their senses, "loill be requested to keep off the grass hereafter. " Now, let us see how things have gone, even judged by the "reform" standard: (1) We have a "new" election law; whether it shall prove to be an "honest one, time will dis close. (2) A 6 per cent, interest law has been enacted; whether there are loop-holes in it, and whether it will do the State more good than harm, we shall find out hereafter. (3) The school tax has been increased 2 cents, and as an offset to whatever good might have been accomp lished by this increase, the head of the system in every county has been destroyed county superintendents and boards of education abolished and the schools left to drift about with out a hand to direct them. (4) No new anti-trust laws were en acted nor any amendments made to those already in forces. (5) A State reformatory has been pro vided for at an expense of $25, 000 a year to begin with and $10,000 a year thereafter for sup port this statement upon the authority of the Caucasian, though our own reading led to the understanding that the re formatory bill had failed. (6) You have your "change in the pres ent system of county govern ment," though it lacks much of being "complete," seeing that the Legislature is still electing magistrates, but such as it is we dare prophesy that you will be sick enough of it before you are through with it. (7) "The in famous homestead law" not "wiped out' nor amended in any particular. (8). 'The present State income tax law" not repealed nor any additianal provision made for its enforcement. (9) No code commission, with or without common sense, appointed. (10) No expenses reduced, no fees lopped off, no golden rule ob served. Then the Progressive Farmers files ten "demands", and it will claim that three of them have been answered: election law, per csnt. interest law, county government law. It may turn out that provision was made for a reformatory, and that 18- cents school tax, against lb cents now, will give four months schools, though we don t believe it, nor do we believe that four months of so-called schools under the new system, without any one to give direction to them, would be as efficient as the two and a half or three months schools are now The Progressive Farmer can make no sort of claim that its other five "demands" have been met or that there was any sort of ef fort to meet them, and it should upon its own showing, turn in and help us and all other good citizens to keep this gang off the grass hereafter. , There was no pretence at do ing five of the ten things that this organ of "reform" declared to be necessary legislation, bat if it will give us its ear for a mom ent we will call its attention to some things that were done that it did not ask for: The State tax was increased. for general purposes from 22 to 24 cents; for all purposes from 41i cents to 45 cents a total of 4 cents on the $100 valuation and odious and discriminating special taxes, never before heard f j. i Oii i : i a OI m 1113 outlts, were icvieu. , criminal court circuit was es tablished under the protest o: every county in it, in order to , give a place to a partisan lawyer and Senator. The expenses -of the legislative session were in creased $5,000 over those of the ast Democratic Legislature, and tho erne and dansrhtprs and wives of members of the Logislature' were quartered upon the State, ' some of these women working at the same tables with buck ne- groes. Resolutions in honor of , a negro miscegenationist wereau mo remuauu ui ucui adopted and an effort made after-! Johnson's gallant troops, sev- Wards tO lie OUt OI It. Time would fail us to tell of, the deeds of a Legislature the! most infamous of anv but one i and pushing that oni; closely that has ever satin jNortn Caro lina. Its members, while candidates, vapored about extravagance, ana have increased the public ex penses. They insistea on tne stump that salaries and fees should be reduced, yet made a reduction in no single instance. They refused to reduce their own ner diem. They voted down a esolution wnicn provided tnat no member of the Legislature should fill a place of its creation and filled up almost every place created or that was made acant, with its own members, to its own sname ana to xne puoiic scandal. The party of the op position has inveighed for years against the free pass evil and yet the Fusion legislators bit at passes like pikes. They re fused to incorporate in their election bill a provision that election officers shall be men of good moral character. Their rev enue bill was denounced by one of their own men on the floor of the Hoase as the most infamous measure ever proposed in the State. They did not scrupple to charge each other with falsehood and double-dealing, and as for bills introduced, no member, Democrat, Republican or Popu- ist had any security that they would not be stolen, changed, or the memoranda on them, altered so as to make them tell lies. To crown all, a plastic Speaker who waived his prerogative at the beginning of the session in compliance with what all the State believes, notwithstanding his denial, to have been a bar gain, countea a quorum to get bills through, rushed through in the defiance of all law and pre cedent, and at last directed the negro at the door to close it upon the representatives of the peo ple, in order to keep in the hall the Democratic representatives an act which very nearly pre cipitated a riot; an act far more high-handed and offensive than many which have precipitated riots in this country. No; this did not crown all. The crowing act was the leaving at Raleigh of a com mittee of three members, two of whom were drunk during the session and both of whom have been drunk ever since one not only drunk but down to investi gate charges brought against the judges and lawyers of the State by a woman who has had more or less;litigation;divorce and other law-suits, and has been cast in one or more of her suits. This committee is drawing $4 per day, salary and expenses besides, and one of its drunken members said -to the Observer's Raleigh correspondent Friday that he was studying how to run up ex penses. They may continue xn nominal session as long as they choose, and their per diem and expens es are to be paid by the State as long as they protess to sit. The record of this session of the Legislature has not yet been half told. When it is fully made up and exposed in all of its hid eous deformity a deceived and outraged people will turn from it with disgust and loathing. Presiding Elder's Appointments. 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The Beantifnl Monument Erected by the Golusboro Rifles Is Unveiled, on That Field To-Day: It Is Said to be one of the Handsomest Monuments in the South: General Wade Hampton Will he the Orator. Thirty years ago yesterday there lay cfead ana dying on tne ua at Bentonsville, which was fought the day before between the left wing of Sherman's army liuuuieu ui me uuuiuom uo- roes ot the uray. Among tne dead was the young son oi uen i Hardee, who saw his nrst service in that hg tit, naving reacnea the command of General. Hamp ton, to which he had been as signed on enlisting, only two hours before the battle. This information we received from General Hampton yesterday, who was present at that memorable battle, in which Johnstcn came out gloriously victorious, driv ing Sherman's routed forces flying for refuge into this city, as our older citizens will remember, while Johnston made only a feint at following them, drawing off his troops in the op posite direction toward Greens boro, hoping to join and re-enforce Gen'l Lee in Virginia, but was cut off by superior numbers of the enemy and surrendered near Durham. Yesterday thirty years after the chivalric spirit of the South, that never dies nor forgets, made itself mainf est on the same field by unveiling there a beautiful shaft of imperishable marble, deeply imbedded in the earth that holds the sacred dust of the death less heroes whose fame it commemorates, and pointing heavenward whence their immor tal spirits have flown, and telling to the passing generations "till the last syllable of recorded time" that the Southern people honor the heroes of the Gray and the cause for which they went to battle and to death. The monument was unveiled about 10 o'clock in the morning, under the auspices of the Golds boro Rifles, and Gen'l Wade Hampton was the orator of the hallowed occasion. He ar rived in this city Tuesday morning and after, taking break fast at the Hotel Kennon and being the recipient of many cor dial handshakes, was escorted by the committee, the military corps of young ladies, many married ladies and scores of citizens on to Bentonsville. General Hampton spoke as follows: Mr. Chairman, my comrades and friends: You meet here to-day to perform one of the most pious and sacred duties which human hearts can feel, and hu man hands can discharge, that of doing honor to our noble dead who fell in de fense of a lost, but, to us, a patriotic and just cause. In thus honoring the memory of these brave martyrs, you do honor to yourselves, but the dedica tion of this noble monument win be a mere idle ceremony if it has not a deep er significance than the mere consecra tion of it by prayer implies. With its spire pointing to heaven, and its foun dation laid deep in the earth thatholds the ashes of our dead comrades, it may defv the tempest and tne corroding touch of time, to tell to future genera tions that the brave sons and noble daughters of North Carolina erected it to mark the spot where Confederate soldiers "For faith and for freedom, Lay slaughtered in vain." It may accomplish all these worthy objects, telling at the same time of the love and veneration in which you hold the memory of our heroic dead, but it seems to me that the solemn ceremonies of this occa."-ion should typify far mors than all these things. They should im press on our minds, and we should teach our children, that the men rest ing here, and the thousands of their CAPT. T. H. BAIN Goldsboro Rifles. comrades who are sleeping on the fields their valor won, were neither rebels nor traitors; that they were freemen, who believed, as firmly as they did in the existence of their God. that .their cause was right; that they were the sons of the men who gave their blood to establish the liberty of America; that they had contributed their full share to the glory, the genius, the fame and the prosperity of the great Republic -founded by their fa thers; that ihoy were the equals of the proudest in that Republic, and that, whatever may be the verdict of His tory, the men who wore the gray have nothing to be ashan ed of. It makes small difference here, and it will make none at the last great day, when the actions of all men are weighed in the scales held by the im partial hands of the Almighty Ruler of the universe, whether our cause was successful or unsuccessful. God does not judge as man judges, and we are nowhere told in the revelations of His Holy Word, that the just are to be re warded in this world and the unjust punished; that truth is to prevail here over falsehood; or that right is to over come might. On the contrary, we are expressly taught by the whole plan of Christian redemption, that this world is only one cf probation to fit us for an other and a better one, and history is full of melancholy examples to show that many of the noblest causes that ever inspired a people's hopes, or nerv ed their arms, have been allowed to sink, apparently forever, under the iron rule wielded by despotic power. Do not allow youreelves, my friends, to be misled by that false doctrine- false to your faith, to your country and to your God which tells you tnat as your cause has failed, the principles for which you contended are forever obliterated. Any human undertaking, however just it may be, may fail; but the ever-living principles of right and of justice can never be buried. A great truth like the God-head whence it emanates is eternal, and. it will live 'till the "last syllable of recorded . time." You are often told that, as our ! cause was submitted to the arbitra-' ment of the sword, no appeal lies j from, the - verdict which was rendered against us. This doctrine is as pernicious as it is false, and if we accept it, we shall brand our heroic dead, as well as the living, as traitors, branding all alike with deserved infamy. WiU the living soldiers who followed the starry cross through the storm of war, who looked so proudly as that banner "braved the battle and the breeze," ever consent to denounce their dead comrades? Will the sons of these men forget the suffer ings, the sacrifices, the heroism of their fathers? iWill the women of the South, who for a quarter of a century have so tenderly and reverently cherished the memory of our dead, ever be willing to brand them as traitors? Ah, No! These things can never happen as long as truth, patriotism, honor, virtue and its synonym, courage, are respected, as long as the fa-ne of the men in gray rolls sounding down the ages, as long as the page of History is made lustrous by the names of Lee, of Johnston and of Jackson! Let me not be understood as wishing to reawaken sectional animosity, now happily dying out, nor as counseling one act of disloyalty to the restored Union I recognize, as every true Confederate soldier should do, the su premacy of the Constitution, the integ rity of the Union, and all the obliga tions we assumed when our arms were laid down. The South is now an inte gral part of this great Eepublic, the flag of the latter waves unchallenged from the rock-ribbed coast of Maine to the golden gate of the bright Pacific and far off Alaska, from the snow crowned mountains of the North to the orange groves of Florida; and it is the duty of every patriot to make this country of ours the fit abode of fi-ee-men for all time to come, but I appeal earnestly and reverently for justice to my Confederate comrades, living and dead. They discharged their duties as they saw them bravely and heroical ly, and God alone can and will judge whether they were right or wrong. It BENTONSVILLE MONUMENT. would certainly ill become us to admit that neither justice nor right was on our side, and every brave man who met us in battle would justly despise us were we to do so. No earthly tribunal has the right to pronounce judgment uppn the merits or the justice of the cause which was submitted to the stern arbitrament of war. The failure of a cause does not prove that it was an un just one. nor can the denial of a truth establish a falsehood. When the tor ture wrung a recantation of the truth from Galileo, did the earth cease to re volve on its axi-? Did the river which swept the ashes of Huss to the sea bury in its waves foi-ever the truths he had proclaimed? When our Divine Mas- ter perished on the Cross, did the graad truths for which he died, die with Him? We acknowledge that the irrevoca ble verdict pronounced by war was against us; we recognize the suprema cy of the Constitution, as amended; we claim to be Joyai and honest citizens and we are bound in honor, the stain less honor of Southern soldiers, by t law more binding than any on the statute books, to observe inviolate the terms of our parole. But while recog nizing all these obligations, we are not called on to abjure the settled convic tions of a life-time, to turn our backs on all the honorable, glorious memories and traditions of the past, and to cover ourselves with shame by defaming the memory of our patriotic dead. We have lost much; let us, at least, main tain our self-respect and preserve our honor. But we are told that we must forget the past and all it holds sacred. Ah: my friends, this is the hardest task that could be imposed on us, for I know npt where that Lethean stream can be fpund on earth, whose waters could bring tqus that swept, oblivious antidote which can give to us blessed forgetfulness of our sufferings, pur sor rows and our wrongs. What are we to forget? Can we forget as we look upon the graves of our kindred that gory sea of blood which has deluged our land? Can the mother forget the darling boy who fills now perhaps some unknown grave? Can the father forget his son. struck down by his side, in all the pride of manly strength and youthful beauty? Can the wife forget the hus band who was the stay and joy of her lifer let all these sad and sacred memories must be forgotten if we prove fal3e to our faith and turn our backs on all , which made our past glorious, Time may teach us to forgive, but it can never make us forget. Jrsut we should not indulge in vain regret, nor in unmanly recrimination, for to do this would be inconsistent with our renewed allegiance to the re stored Union. Whatever faith has been kept with us, and it has not been an untarnished one, no plot must rest on our 'scutcheon, no charge of Punic faith must stain our record. If we can leave nothing else to our children, let us, at least, bequeath W them a fair name and an unblemished honor. But while we accept all the results legiti mately following our defeat, we claim the right to justify our cause, to vindi cate our motives and to hono- our dead. To do this is not only our right, but our sacred duty. We owe it to our selves, to our children, to those who died for us, that we should cling with unshaken fidelity to what we believe to be true. By no other means under heaven can we preserve our own re spect or gain that of mankind, By no other Mieans can we escape the doom which awaits the people who sacrifice principle to subservient expediency, Who abandon their ancient virtues to adopt the vices of their conquerors, and who are content tp barter freedom for gilded servitude. To the state which sells her birth right no day of redemption can evor dawn. "She shall be bought And sold, and be an appendage to those Who shall despise her. ' She shall stoop to be A promise for an empire: Petty town, In lieu of capital with slaves for Senates, Beggars for nobles, panders for a people: Her sons are in the lowest scale of being, Slaves turned over to the vanquished by the victors, Despised by cowards for their great er cowardice." If we hope to escape this fate, which surely comes to every people who prove unworthy of liberty, we must show ourselves worthy of that freedom for which we pray. Jf our faith in the justice of our cause was so strong that we risked life, and all that made life desirable, on the dread issue of war, surely we should strive to justify our selves in the eyes of the world, will History vindicate us if we condemn ourselves? But if we cling steadfastly to the faith taught by our forefathers; if we prove worthy of that faith, we shall not have fought in vain; for though we can no longer defend our cause with our swords, we can justify it before the great tribunal of Historv. and posterity wili do us justice. To our noble womon, the real mar tyrs of the war, as they are its saddest victims, the prospect of future justifi cation of our conduct brings, I know. but little compensation for what thev have suffered and lost. But bv a merciful dispensation of Providence, nature offers some compensation for nearly every sorrow, and this blessed law will give to them many and rich mercies for the griefs they have borne. The tender care with which they soothed the sufferings of our wounded and ill soldiers, is remembered in many a grateful heart from which daily prayers ascend to the jThrone of Grace, invoking on them every bless ing which a merciful God can bestow. The consciousness of duty noblv per forated to the living and dead will bring to them peace, if not happiness. Many of them, alas: throughout all the borders of our stricken land, like Rachel, weep for their children, and "refuse to be comforted because thev are not;" but let them remember the proud boast of a bereaved mother, who, even over the body of her dead son. exclaimed, "1 would not give my dead son for any living son in Chris tendom." Nor is the death of a loved one who gave his life nobly in a just cause a source of unalloyed sorrow. Among the beautiful legends which come to us from classic Greece, there is one which always struck me as pecu larly touching, and which might teach a lesson to many a mournful mother in the South. It was a custom at the great festival in honor of Juno, that the priestess, drawn in a chariot by two wh.te oxen, should go, accompanied by a solemn procession, to the temple to offer the usual sacrifices. It is related that on one occasion the oxen for the chariot were wanting, when the two sons of the priestess, yoking themselves to the chariot, drew their mother in triumph to the temple, amid the plaudits of the populace. The priestess, in the pride of a mother's heart at this act of filial devotion, supplicated the gods to bestow on her sons the greatest bless ing which could be granted to mortals. Her prayers were answered; her sons sank into gentle sleep in the temple itself, and thus passed from life to death, as if to show that the greatest boon in the gift of the gods was an early death for man. "I did not ask of the gods," ex claimed Xenophon, when told of the death of his son, "that my son should never die; I only prayed that he might live virtuously and die nobly," The Roman Senate decreed a tri umph to one of their heroic citizens, be cause, amid all the dangers threaten ing his country, he never despaired of the Republic. Many and great dan gers surround us. and they may well appall the stoutest heart. "H-rk, from the abyss a ceeds, voice pro- A long, low, distant murmur of dread sound. Such as arises when a nation bleeds, I rom some deep immedicable wound, i rom the hearts of our people comes up that "murmur of dread sound," which tells of the wounds our land has received, but it does not becomeus, as brave men, to yield to despair, if we will but be true to ourselves, to our principles, to our country, and to our God, the future may bring to us some compensation for the past. I adjure you, then, by all the glorious memories of the past, by all the: hopes of the fu ture, to dedicate yourselves to the ser vice of your country. Be steadfast to the right; "steadfast." "To stand or .fall, free in their own arbitrament it lies." In the early annals of the Saracens, a story is told of the heroic conduct of one of the Caliphs, who was beseiged in Mecca. "When he perceived him self forsaken on a1! sides, " says the his torian, "he went to his mother, and said to her, "Oh, mother, the people and even my own children have deserted me. My enemies are willing to give me if I will submit whatever I can desire in this world. What do you advise me to do?' 'Son', said she, 'judge for yourself. If as you pretend to be, you know that you are in the right, persevere, for your friends have died for the sake of it. But if thou choosest the present world, alas, bad servant, thou hast destroyed yourself and those who were killed for thee! And if thou say est, I stood to the truth, but when my friends declined I was weakened, this is neith er the part of an ingenuous nor a reli gious man. And how long can you continue in this world! Death is more eligible.""" He tpok the adyica pf his mother, and Reaving pff his 'armpr, so as tQ meet death" te more surely, he sallied forth and gave his life for the cause be believed tp be true. Centuries GOLDSBORO MONUMENT. have rolled by since the brave words uttered bv that noble woman were spoken, but they are as true and appli- pabie now as they were a thousand years ago. "Judge fpr yourself, lias you pretend to be, you know that you are in tne rignb, poraovenj iu iu, iui your friends have died for the saite of it." Sublime sentiments, clothed in noble words, inculcating a lesson to the women of the South for all genera tions to come! Let them teach their children that their fathers fought for what they honestly believed to be their right; that they were actuated by as strong faith in our cause as ever fired the heart or nerved the arms of patri ots, and that though their cause has gone down in disaster, in blood, in ruin, not one stain of dishonor rests upon iU If the sentiments I have ex pressed meet a response in your hearts; if you believe that the men buried here and the tens of thousands of their com rades who gave their lives for the South, are worthy of honor or rever ence, then this stately monument is a fit tribute to the memory of those whose faithful services it is intended to commemorate. In all ages, in nearly every country, civilized or savage, pa gan and christian aiiKe nave striven to perpetuate the memory of their dead, and to manifest their anection by hon oring the graves that hold the dust of those whom they loved, or who died in defense of their country. The severe muse of history has not thought it be low her dignity to record the fact that the word itself, descriptive of a a mag nificent monument, owes its origin to that noble pile which the affection of a pagan widow dedicated to her husband Maurolus, and whilst most of the proud temples and mighty public works of haughty Rome have crumbled into dust, that round stone tower of other days, on the Appian way, that tells of the love her husband bore his dead Metilla, yet stands to command the re spect and admiration of the world. My yonder monument stand as long as that -to Metilla has done, and may all the true and brave of North Carolina hold it in perpetual veneration! It marks fittingly the spot where gallant and brave men died; men worth jr of the epitaph of Spartans who fell at The. mopj lae, Go, stranger, and at Lacodsemon tell. Twas in obedience to her laws we fell". These men who sleep under the sod. once maintained by their life-blood, in obedience to the call of their States, and obeying the command of "Duty, that stern daughter of the voice of God," left their peaceful homes to strike for the faith taught them by their fathers, and for their native land. They have sealed their devotion by the sac rifice of their lives, and the feeling which inspired them was the same which has been so nobly expressed by a heroic votary Land martyr . of liberty in these words, which should be en graved on every heart dtsirous or worthy of freedom; "That L simply of fer my life is of simpie import; but that I offer it, crowned as it is with all the flowery wreathes of love, of friendship and of joy, this is indeed a sacrifice which can only be offered for such prize, our country's freedom." Such were our heroes "who wore the gray, and time does not dim, but adds only lustre to their deeds. A king once said oi a Prince struck down: Taller he seems in dea th. " And this speech holds truth for -s now as then, It is after death we measure men. And as the mists of the past have rolled away, Our heroes who died in their tattered gray, Grow taller and greater in all their parts, 'Till they fill our minds as they fill our hearts; And for those who lament there is this relief, That glory stands by the side of grief. Yes, they grow taller as the years go by And the world learns how they could do and die. The nation respects them. The East and West: The far-off slope of the Golden Coast, The stricken South and the North agree That the heroes who died for you and for me Each valiant man, in his own degree, Whether he fell on the shore or sea, Did deeds of wh'ch This land, though rich In histories may boast, And the sage's book and the poet's lay Are full of the deeds of the men in gray. No lion cleft from the rock is ours, Such as Lucerne displays. Our only wealth is in tears and flowers, And words of reverent praise. And the roses brought to this silent yard Are Red and White. Behold! They tell how wars for a kingly crown, In the blood of England's best writ down, Left Britain a story whose moral old Is fit to be graven in text of gold: The moral is, that when battles cease The ramparts smile in the bloom of peace. The past is now like an Arctic Sea. Where the living currents have ceased to run, But over that past the fame of Lee Shines out like the "Midnight Sun"; And that glorious orb, in its march sublime, Shall gild our graves till the end of time. My comrades, the grateful duty im posed on me by your kindness, of speak ing to you to-day, for our dead, is dis charged all inadequately, I am aware, but let me assure you, that I appreciate highly the honor done me by my friends of ihe Old North State. Many of her brave sons were with me during the war, and I take pleasure in repeating here what I ha ve often said, that no bet ter soldiers than they were wore the Gray. While my theme to-day was to do honor to the memory of our dead comrades, another duty is miDe,-thatof paying a heartfelt tribute to the living. To say that they were worthy of the fame won by their dead comrades does the highest honor that could be paid to them, and wherever the survivors may be, let them rest assured that their glorious deeds, their unflinching cour- age, their devoted loyalty to duty, shall never be forgotten bv myself. They have my best wishes for their welfare and happiness, and I trust that a mer ciful God will bless them and their State with His richest mercies. NOTIGR. Having qualified before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Wayne county as administrator of Georgia Hurst, deceased, notice is hereby given to all persons indebted to her estate to make immediate payment, and to all persons holding claims against said estate to prerept them to tho" undersigned oh pr before March lj.th. 185)6, pr this nptice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. p. A- fJ-VN lKJ-jS, Adm'r Georgia Hurst, dee'd. March 11, 1895. Lyon 4 wVW Mt. I II SS 1 .o,.ffTv for Infants nOOTHERS, Do You Ki BuJ Bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many soci Inost remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine f Pe Yoti Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons t on Know that in most countries druggists are not permitted to veil narcotics without labeling them poisons f Do Tote Know that you should not permit any medicine to be givei your chll4 unless you or your physician know of what it is composed f Po You Know that Castoria is a purely rege table preparation, and that a list ot its Ingredients is published with every bottle f P" Tci Know that Castoria is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. That it has been la use for near'y thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than ot all other remedies for children combined f Po Toil Know that the Patent Office Department of the United Slates, a. id of otfier countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word " Castoria " and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense t Po To' 1 Know that one! of the reasons for granting this government protection was because Cast oria had been proven to be absolutely haxmless? Po Yon Know that 35 svarsgs doses of Castoria are furnished for 3& oeouta, or oi e cent a dose f Po Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your hndrea may be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest ? W ell, 'these thtirgs are worth knowing. They are 1 The fac- simile llgnatnre of Children Cry for ertilizers S FERTILIZERS ! "We offer for sale the following well krown and tried brands of fertilizers on the most reasnble terms: G U A O 1000 tons Prolific. 200 tons Prolific Truck, 500 tons F. F. F.. 500 tons Gibbs High Grade. 1000 tons High Grade Acid Phos phate, 1000 tons Genuine German Kai nit, 300 tons Rock Lime, 100" tons Salt. Special inducements offered Correspondence solicited. H.Weil&Bros Leading Livery Stable, ) Airy, N. C, Dec. 26, 1894. ) Jlrooklyn, K. Y. Gentlemen certify that J have used Mexican Mustang Liniment for the past 20 years for all diseases of the skin and flesh that horses are heir to, and have never yet found its equal. For man or beast it can not be excelled. My father always kept this liniment on hand for use on his horses and also as a household remedy. Respectfully, SAML. G. PACE. Winston, N. C, Dec. 1894. 3g, Co., Brooklyn, N. Y, . Gentlemen : I have used Mexican Mus tang Liniment for piles and find that it in variably gives instant relief. I can recom mend it to all who are suffering with this disease. Use the Mustang freely, as it has a most soothing effect. BUCK ELLINGTON, Firm of Dalbon & Ellington, Tobacco Manufacturers, Winston, IT. G, -0 Dec. 20, 1894. Lyon Mfg. Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. Gentlemen I find that flexlcan flustang Liniment ia the very best thing for the Mumps. When applied over the affected parts it gives almost instant relief. t Truly yours. Dn. F. A. IIENLY. and Children. .MOW that Paregoric, so-called Soothing Syrups, and i on every wrapper. Pitcher's Castoria. G U A O to Dealers and Large Buyers.
Goldsboro Weekly Argus (Goldsboro, N.C.)
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